H. G. Wells Quotes

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

H. G. Wells

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• Imagination creates some big monsters.

  

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• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

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• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

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• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

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• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

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• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

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• I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

  

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• Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.

  

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• If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

  

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• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

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• A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

  

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• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

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• The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

  

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  

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• When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'

  

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• Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

  

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• People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.

  

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• The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.

  

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• I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

  

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• I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.

  

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• The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

  

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• To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

  

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• I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

  

  H. G. Wells